Messi's Blog

For some reason, Lionel Messi's blog is published in Japanese only. I guess it'll eventually be translated to other languages, but his blog is only in Japanese for now.

I'd say this is one of the few times that I'm glad that I know Japanese.
His blog is very simple and writes about his life like anybody else that I know.

I wish him a great season. I hope to see him in Barcelona in a few months.

Outcast

I realized recently that I can't write in Japanese anymore. Oh well, who cares. I don't need to anyways.

I've been translating the Johan Cruijff's column on "El Periodico," and it's been working out well. It makes me feel good when I sometimes actually understand what people are saying at the game in Cicero. But I'll probably need to keep doing this for another couple of years to really be able to speak Spanish.

I have a job interview tomorrow for the traveling electrician job. We'll see how it goes, but I'm not expecting anything since I've never been an electrician. Plus the job is in middle of no where in Minnesota. Maybe they have an engineering job lying about somewhere. Who knows. I'm not really expecting anything, but we'll see how it goes.

I met S yesterday even though I didn't want to talk to her for the next decade or so. I didn't bring up any serious conversations. I think she was happy to see that I pretended like I'm not going to start hitting on her.

An Analysis on the Effects of Japanese Social Backgrounds on the Decision Making Process of Japanese Football Players

I'm reading an interview of Phillip Troussier by Ryu Murakami. I'm very impressed by the depth of Troussier's understanding on the social structures in Japan. It's fascinating to read about his theories into the psychological impact of the social background on footballers. He explains his insights into these complex and indistinguishable social habits in very direct words as if he has refined his theories for decades.